Dr. Phil sides with cops, Jews against UCLA

WARNING: Violent Jews, outside agitators, and/or undercover LAPD apparatchiks attack UCLA student peace in Palestine encampment as campus security stands by and city police are nowhere to be found. The students and their guests were left to fend for themselves against pro-genocide, pro-Israel attackers armed with bear spray (chemical irritants), clubs, metal pipes, and explosives.

I'm here to put Pro-Palestinians in check.

Photogenic Ashkenazi (German European) Jews tell Oprah's Dr. Phil, "Side with us," and he does, embedding with the riot police amassing to destroy UCLA's peaceful demonstration protesting UC's complicity with Israel and the war machine (CIA, Pentagon, Biden administration) funding Israel's genocide in Gaza and throughout Palestine. His one chance to side with progressive students for peace, Dr. Phil goes more regressive to get ratings and play it safe. "Let's highlight the Jewish perspective for a largely Zionist-Christian audience," he must have been thinking.

Dr. Phil: The [One and Only] Truth Behind the UCLA Pro-Palestine Protests

I love you, Dr. Phil. You're always right. Oprah must be so proud. "Cash me outside," right?!

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(Dr. Phil Primetime) May 8, 2024: Old and increasingly decrepit Doc Phil McGraw is first and foremost about making money. What better way than sticking his nose into a divisive issue.

That'$ my boy, Pema! - Who, Mr. Phil?

I'm America’s top talk show host, and I need to turn it up in prime time. Just ask my boss, Oprah. I'm on a mission to tackle issues that matter to my ratings: parents’ rights, social media, education, homelessness, the Fentanyl crisis, and much more.

No topic is out of reach of my cameras, no cow is too sacred not to slaughter, and nobody is too lost for me not to tell them how to get found and get right with the Judeo-Christian Lord above all, El Capitalismo.

(NY Post) At the "anti-Israel" (not pro-Palestine) UCLA violence camp

It's time you find your way back, you antisemitic Bruins! What is this, Athens? Pay attention to what happened to the Trojans across town. The police set them straight. And the police are moving in on you unless you obey.

Watch: Violent clashes break out [against] UCLA pro-Palestinian encampment | WSJ News

(WSJ News) May 1, 2024: Groups of counter-protesters clash with peaceful students at a pro-Palestinian tent encampment demonstration and sleep in at UCLA. Peaceful demonstrations have taken place at elite colleges across the U.S. this week leading to multiple arrests by police trying to shut them down and stifle free speech just as in 1960s' Berkeley. Photo: Etienne Laurent/AFP/Getty Images #wsj #ucla #protest

UCLA: Riot police fire deadly (albeit less lethal) rubber projectiles at student demonstrators in an orgy of police violence

(Sky News) May 2, 2024: Hundreds of peaceful demonstrators have been arrested by police after letting violent pro-genocide outsiders attempt to dismantle a pro-Palestinian tent camp at the University of California Los Angeles. #propalestine #skynews #protest

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• Dr. Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil Primetime), all Jewish panel of explainers for one side (the right side) of the story to get at "the truth behind the UCLA pro-Palestine Protests"), May 8, 2024; Wall Street Journal (WSJ) News, May 1, 2024; Sky News, May 2, 2024; Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sweden told to prepare for war (blame NATO)

Sweden (essanews.com), Jan. 8, 2024; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sweden has a military? Swedish Army/Carl-Oskar Bohlin  (© EPA, PAP)

Thai Buddha in Frederika, Sweden

Sweden is bracing for a possible, potential Russian intrusion, and a minister is calling for citizen preparedness.

Sweden seems as warlike as Switzerland, but with a history of Vikings rampaging all around Scandinavia and pumped up with US and NATO weapons, the northern European country may be foolish enough to fall for the delusion that war wins anything (other than enriching a very few).

• NATO formed with 12 founding members and has added new members nine times, most recently when Finland joined the alliance on April 4, 2023, 74 years after NATO's formation [11]. Following the acceptance of its application for membership in June 2022, Sweden is anticipated to become the 32nd member, with its Accession Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty now in the process of being ratified by the existing members [11]. [Let's give them a little push and prompting by threatening them with a Russian invasion and an impending Ukraine scenario.] More

This is more Western propaganda as the Russian nation says no to NATO in our neighborhood

Corrupt cult of a NATO-backed proxy war hero

Over the past year, the security situation in the country has deteriorated due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Moscow's rapid rearmament should be taken very seriously. Swedish Minister of Civil Defense Carl-Oskar Bohlin warned about the escalation of war during a Sunday conference.

In his address, reported by "Expressen," Bohlin directly appealed to the nation, urging all citizens to "have the courage and strength to accept the reality that war could also impact Sweden. More

• Why does US/NATO keep trying to provoke Russia into another Cold War? Because it's very, very profitable for a few movers and shakers
• Tasmanian tigers may not be extinct: Scientists challenge traditional view, suggest survival into late 20th century (essanews.com)

The European "Thanksgiving" story (video)

Cody Banks, 11/21/18; HuffPost; Xochitl, Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The "Real" Story of Thankstaking - as the Europeans saw it

Who was the slave boy "Squanto" (Tisquantum) the British abducted and shipped to England until his escape who saved the new Puritan (Brownists Separatists English Dissenters from the Church of England) Settlers? Sachem Samoset ("Chief Somerset") introduced him to the invading British colonialists. Discover the true story behind an event that only much later started an enduring national holiday. But don't expect the Christian capitalist immigrant settlers ("Pilgrims") and Native Americans (Wampanaog, Patuxet, Abenaki, Algonquian) to look like what we often see in postcards. This is closer to historical fact excluding the Native perspective of the "First Thanksgiving," which was NOT actually the 3-day "harvest festival" we are all taught it was, as shown here, but a 1637 celebration of the safe return of English occupier-settlers who had gone out to massacre 700 Natives]. This video features the music "Autumn: Meditativo" and "Winter is Coming: Adagio - First Snow" by Dee Yan-Key as well as artwork from "The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower" by P.J. Lynch.

Native Americans observe a National Day of Mourning for Thanksgiving
as tribal elder Moonanum James explains from Massachussets (HuffPost)

Truth about the First Thankstaking (video)

FNX TV, Nov. 29, 2017; Xochitl, Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

THE MYTH of the First Thanksgiving we are taught is all a lie (New York Times)

Smoke Signals: Why the Story of Thanksgiving is a Lie

The history and truth behind the first "Thanksgiving" -- which we should actually call the first "Thankstaking" -- and why the MYTH of Puritans/Pilgrims and Wampanoag/Indians should never have been taught to American school children. What if there were a Native American Heritage Day instead of our current National Day of Mourning?

Sources:

• "The Real Story of Thanksgiving" (History Channel)
• The First Thanksgiving was not in 1621 [but rather in 1637 to celebrate stealing, killing, and a massacre] (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
• A Day of Mourning (americanindiansource.com)
• What really happened at the "First Thanksgiving": The Wampanoag Side of the Story (indiancountrymedianetwork.com)

What whites did to richest US Indians (video)

Dave Davies (Fresh Air, 4/l 6/18); USA EYE; Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Osage: victims at the hands of greedy white men (Osage National Museum/Doubleday)

Largely forgotten Osage murders reveal a conspiracy against world's wealthiest people at the time, who happened to be Native Americans: Members of the Osage Indian Nation became extremely wealthy in the 1920s after oil deposits were found on the worthless reservation land to which they had been relegated. Then local whites began targeting tribe members, murdering them for money and covering it up their crimes with the ill gotten gains. The Osage tribe in Oklahoma became spectacularly wealthy in the early 1900s — then members started turning up defrauded and murdered. David Grann's forgotten American history book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI describes the dark plot against them and how the new FBI fumbled the case. More

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The First Precept: abstain from killing (sutra)

Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Ven. Abbot Thanissaro, Metta Forest Monastery, San Diego, California, "Getting the Message" from Purity of Heart

Man viciously attacked by bull after lightly taunting the animal and gently inserting knives into its back while attempting to slaughter him for the crowd's blood lust and amusement (Gustavo Cuevas/i.cdn.turner.com)

 

You'd kill her, but would you -- y'know -- her?

"What is unskillful (unwholesome, karmically unprofitable)?

1. Taking life (killing) is unskillful,
2. taking what is not given... 
3. sexual misconduct... 
4. perjury...
5. abusive speech...
6. divisiveness... 
7. idle chatter is unskillful. 
8. Greed... 
9. ill will... 
10. wrong view is unskillful.

"These (ten) things are unskillful... What is skillful (wholesome, karmically profitable)? Refraining

1. from taking life...
2. from taking what is not given...
3. from sexual misconduct...
4. from perjury...
5. from abusive speech...
6. from divisiveness...
7. from idle chatter...
8. from covetousness... 
9. from ill will... 
10. from wrong view is skillful. 

"These things are skillful." — MN 9

• AUDIO: "I want to kill!" (This American Life)

The result of our cruelty rarely comes so quickly.

Killing is NEVER skillful. Stealing... holding a wrong view is never skillful. When asked if there were any killing he approved of, the Buddha answered that there was only one: anger.

[That is to say, one should destroy the root motivation, the underlying intention -- which is aversion -- to harm or destroy living beings.]

 

In no recorded instance did the Buddha approve of killing any living being. Once when a Buddhist monk went to an executioner and told the man to kill his victims compassionately -- that is, with one blow, rather than torturing them by multiple strikes -- the Buddha expelled that monk from the Order (Sangha) on the grounds that even the recommendation to kill compassionately is nevertheless a recommendation to kill -- something this Dharma never condones.

• [Similarly, according to the monastic rules (vinaya), if one eats meat from an animal one sees, hears, or so much as suspects was killed for one's benefit, or to make an offering to one, is a violation on the grounds that it is tacit approval of killing. Moreover, if one recommends or speaks in praise of abortion or suicide or euthanasia, and life is taken as a result, one is guilty of killing and expelled from the Order. Why? Killing is weighty karma, very bad karma, and the Buddha went to great lengths to make this known. In ancient India he was known as a karma-vadin, a teacher of the consequences of physical, verbal, and mental action.]

Kill. Kill. Kill. And make us rich (BBC).

If a monastic were ever physically attacked, the Buddha allowed for that person to strike back in self-defense, but never with the intention of killing an assailant. 

 

As the Buddha taught monastics, "Even if highway robbers were to dismember one savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, anyone who would allow one's heart to become hateful and angry on account of it would not be following my Teaching. Even then one should train oneself: 

Even reviled dictator could act kindly (iln).

"'Our minds will not be affected, and we will not give vent to hateful words. Instead, we will remain sympathetic, with a mind/heart full of compassion [perhaps for the results they will one day face for their karma], and free of hate. 

"'We will pervade even these bandits with a consciousness imbued with good will. And beginning with them we will continue to pervade the world in all quarters with a consciousness imbued with good will -- abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, and free from ill will.' That is how one should train oneself." — ("The Parable of the Saw," MN 21)

The Parable of the Saw

Acharya Buddharakkhita (Positive Response) edited by Wisdom Quarterly

The Buddha, Gandhara/Afghanistan (Boonlieng/flickr)

"Meditators, even if bandits were to savagely sever you, limb by limb, with a double-handled saw, even then, whoever harbors ill will at heart would not be upholding my Teaching. 

"Meditators, even in such a situation, train yourselves: 'Neither shall our minds be affected by this, nor for this matter shall we give vent to hateful words, but we shall remain full of concern and pity (mudita, sympathy, compassion), with a mind of love (mettā, friendliness), and we shall not give in to hatred. On the contrary, we shall live projecting thoughts (feelings) of universal love to those very persons, making them as well as the whole world the objects of our thoughts of universal love -- thoughts that have grown great, exalted, and measureless. 

"We shall dwell radiating these thoughts void of hostility and ill will.' It is in this way, meditators, that one should train oneself.

 

"Meditators, if one should keep this instruction on the Parable of the Saw constantly in mind, do you see any mode of speech, subtle or gross, that you could not endure?"

 

"No, venerable sir."

 

"Therefore, meditators, one should keep this instruction on the Parable of the Saw constantly in mind. That will conduce to the well-being and happiness of all for long indeed."

 

That is what the Blessed One said. Delighted, those meditators acclaimed the Teaching (Dharma) of the Blessed One.

• COMMENTARY: How could the Buddha say such a pie-in-the-sky thing? First, when one realizes that ultimately there is no self, no ego, nothing to cling to, it is possible to behave in a universal way. But more down to earth, this instruction follows the Buddha's advice to his disciples to endure the abusive speech of others. Why should they endure it? The Buddha says one should even endure being painfully tortured and murdered without becoming angry -- which only harms the angry one. This being the case, keeping this instruction in mind, how hard would it be to endure mere words? It would be easy, the audience responds. Therefore, keep this instruction in mind.

Suicide ("Jump" the Cartoon)

A Buddhist Perspective on Suicide

Dharmachari (for Wisdom Quarterly)

The Buddhist teaching on suicide is very clear. It is killing. It is karma with heavy and unpleasant consequences. Even when life is unbearable, and it will be, there are options that are far better and available to everyone. The Petavatthu (Tales of Hungry Ghosts) has surprising tales of the consequences.

Suicide is not possible through killing oneself: All that is really happening is transitioning from a bad situation to a worse situation. One is still in a situation, still stuck in Samsara, still existing. What kind of "suicide" is that?

Craving is the root of suffering. There are, in this sense, three forms craving may take. First, there is the obvious and that is craving for sensual pleasure. Second, there is craving for continued existence (wanting to live on eternally). Third, and most relevant here, is the craving for annihilation.

Nirvana is the quenching of all thirst, craving, and desire. The world is not the problem; craving is. Life is not a problem but how one approaches it. The solution is enlightenment. The solution is redirecting the mind to what uplifts it, away from what is bringing on dejection.

Esther and Jerry Hicks in their books and workshops on the law of attraction explain an amazing thing. With a chart, they illustrate the need to move up an emotional ladder step by step, rung by rung. One cannot jump. It is not possible to go from depressed and hopeless to cheerful and optimistic in one step. Instead, one passes through intermediate stages. So very negative things like anger might be relatively good -- in that it is moving away from hopeless to angry, from angry to vengeful, from vengeful to relieved, and so on. One shifts. It doesn't become a physical action, and one doesn't remain angry. One goes to a better feeling state. One follows a bliss that actually leads to a better feeling state. One can reach "the end of all suffering" (nirvana).

Suicide "hotlines" and outreach call centers are all around (911). Assisted suicide falls into the karma of killing as well. It may not seem fair, but if a Buddhist monk or nun were to counsel or even suggest to someone to take his or her own life by saying something like, "What is this life for you? It wouldn't be much of a loss!" that is enough to permanently banish the monastic from the Sangha. They would be forfeiting their ordination. Like suggesting or recommending abortion, it is considered killing -- one of four grave offenses that cannot be corrected (parajika).

That being the case -- that the monastic did not do the killing, did not see the killing, but only thought it and said it as a suggestion -- how much more grave for the person who engages in the actual act? The person who commits suicide would bear that additional karmic burden, not only losing the great and rare opportunity of being human, as woeful as it is in this world, but inheriting a more painful, more desperate situation as a result. Shift. Happiness awaits right here in this world.

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"You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them" -- Abraham (excerpted from a workshop in San Francisco, 3/2/97, see previous quote; subscribe to daily quotes).